Socrates had questions: What is virtue? What is the good? What is justice?

Freud had questions: What is happiness? Can humans be happy?

And so do the undergraduates majoring in fundamentals: issues and texts. As the program’s website states, “Genuine questions cannot be assigned to a student; they must arise from within.” Each fundamentals student chooses a question, then designs a reading list to try to answer it over the next three years.

Here’s a sampling of what current fundamentals students are trying to figure out.